John Miller Baer
U.S. Congressperson
1886 – 1970
Who was John Miller Baer?
John Miller Baer was a U.S. Representative from North Dakota.
Born at Black Creek, Wisconsin, Baer attended the public schools. He was graduated from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1909. He moved to Beach, Golden Valley County, North Dakota, in 1909 and engaged as a civil engineer and in agricultural pursuits from 1909–1915 and served as Postmaster of Beach, North Dakota.
Baer also worked as a cartoonist and furnished cartoons and articles to newspapers. Baer worked for the Non-Partisan Leader from 1909 to 1917. After resigning as postmaster, Baer relocated to Fargo and cartooned for the Fargo Courier-News.
Baer was elected as a member of the Nonpartisan League to the Sixty-fifth Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Henry T. Helgesen, and reelected to the succeeding Congress. He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-seventh Congress in 1920. He resumed activities as a cartoonist and journalist for Labor, the newspaper of the National Railroad Union.
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- Born
- Mar 29, 1886
Outagamie County - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Lawrence University
- Died
- Feb 18, 1970
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on July 23, 2013
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